During the course of World War II several brave German soldiers distinguished themselves in combat by taking out tanks or armored vehicles with hand held weapons.

In an effort to award and encourage such bravery the Panzervernichtungsabzeichen was instituted on March 9th, 1942.

The Panzervernichtungsabzeichen was to be awarded to individuals who single handedly destroyed an enemy tank with hand held explosives such as a panzerfaust, satchel charge or grenade

The award was worn on the upper right arm of the tunic with subsequent awards being attached directly below the first one until four were attached at one time. On the award of a fifth badge, the four were taken off the uniform and replaced with a single gold badge (December 18, 1943)

1.’’Typ erkennen, swächen wissen’’

The soldiers must know what type of tank they are dealing with. Know it's weaknesses and how to knock it out.

Knowing your weapons and how and when to use them is highly important. This will save lives on your own side and will cause maximum destruction on the side of the enemy.

Therefore the men must learn the theory first, before they put things into practice.

This highly decorated and experienced Unteroffizier instructs these Grenadiere on the use of the 3kg Sprengbusche 24 (geballte ladung 3kg).

6.’’Kennst du deine waffen?’

An Oberleutnant instructs new recruits and veterans on the use of the Panzerfaust by using a training version op the weapon.In this manner the men wil get to know the weapon first before they will actually use in reality.

The credits for the Photoshoots have to go to our Group resposible, Nick DC.He is our Obergefreiter who uses the Panzerfaust at section 4.’’Wer lauft, stirbt!’’.

The person who wears the RK is "kradschutze" on this forum.Our group responsible wanted to make the photo's as realistic as possible and used originals when possible.After the photo's where taken, we got rid of all the medals that we have not "earned" in our group.

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